As thousands gather for the World Parks Congress in Sydney, there are growing calls for a new marine park in Sydney Harbour. New South Wales’s Labor opposition has promised, if elected, to establish the…

A dragnet that captures too much marine life.
Joachim MüllerchenJuly 14, 2014

When the UK Environmental Audit Committee investigated the issue of protecting our marine environment last month, it concluded that there had been a woeful lack of decisive action from the government so…

It seems that talk is at last followed by walk.
Jim Lo Scalzo/EPAJune 20, 2014

As it had already been cancelled once, due to the US government shut-down last October, the latest developments in Iraq made it seem likely the Our Ocean conference, organised by the US State Department…

Step away from the fish, with your beak in the air.
ReemulFebruary 5, 2014

Some of the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats are being failed by the conservation orders put in place to protect them. As the Environmental Audit Committee meets to discuss how it will implement…